Freedom Riders

Plot

This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challe... read more

  • Stanley Nelson

    Director

  • Stanley Nelson

    Writer

  • Lewis Erskine

    Editor

  • Aljernon Tunsil

    Editor

  • Raymond Arsenault

    Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'

  • Genevieve Houghton

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Gordon Carey

    Self - Core staff

  • Derek Catsam

    Self - Historian

  • John Lewis

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Diane Nash

    Self - Student, Fisk University

  • Charles Person

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Sangernetta Gilbert Bush

    Self - Montgomery resident

  • John Seigenthaler

    Self - Nashville resident

  • Evan Thomas

    Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer

  • John Patterson

    Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963

  • Clayborne Carson

    Self - Historian

  • James Lawson

    Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

  • Jerry Ivor Moore

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Hank Thomas

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Moses Newson

    Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)

  • Mae F. Moultrie Howard

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Brandt Ayers

    Self - Journalist

  • Janie Forsyth McKinney

    Self - Anniston resident

  • Gary Thomas Rowe

    Self - FBI informant

  • Diane McWhorter

    Self - Writer

  • Ted Gaffney

    Self - Photographer

  • Harris Wofford

    Self - Assistant to President Kennedy

  • Jim Zwerg

    Self - Exchange student, Fisk University

  • Frederick Leonard

    Self - Student, Tennessee State University

  • C.T. Vivian

    Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

  • Bernard LaFayette Jr.

    Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary

  • William Harbour

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Catherine Burks-Brooks

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Delores Boyd

    Self - Montgomery resident

  • Tommy Giles

    Self - Aide to governor Patterson

  • Joan Mulholland

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Ernest Patton Jr.

    Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)

  • Pauline Knight-Ofosu

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Israel Dresner

    Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider

  • Glenda Gaither Davis

    Self - Freedom Rider

  • Runtime

    117 minutes

    Released

    2010-02-01

    Languages

    Français

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    American Experience Films

    Updated

    21 days ago

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